Zongzi is a traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. It is especially common to eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. This comes from many sayings, the most well-known of which is to commemorate Qu Yuan. The main raw material of Zongzi is glutinous rice, and the wrapping inside can be meat or candied dates. Of course, you can also wrap whatever you want.
As for the category of Zongzi, we can discuss it together with the category of honey trademark. Both belong to the same category. By querying the trademark classification encyclopedia in Bajie Intellectual Property Trademark, we can know that the Zongzi trademark belongs to Class 30. -3007-Convenience food-Zongzi C300051; the honey trademark belongs to Class 30 -3005-Honey, royal jelly and other nutritious foods-Honey 300098.
In addition, whether it is a rice dumpling trademark or a honey trademark, there will be imperfections in the process of trademark transfer. This requires enterprises to pay more attention when transferring trademarks, and the transferor and transferee must adhere to the principle of good faith. . We can divide the key points to pay attention to into three major points to guard against imperfections in trademark transfer.
①Possible imperfections 1
When transferring a trademark, the transferor must first clarify whether the transferred trademark itself has a similar trademark. Usually, the company will In order to protect your own trademark, you need to register a similar trademark to prevent others from infringing upon your trademark. Therefore, when transferring a trademark, the similar trademarks of the transferred trademark should be transferred together;
The transferee should also make inquiries when transferring the trademark to clarify which trademarks are similar to the trademark and understand whether the transferor has any All the own trademarks and similar trademarks have been transferred.
②Possible imperfections 2
Confirm whether the transferred trademark exists within the validity period. A trademark that has been approved has a ten-year validity period. After the ten-year term of a trademark, the trademark itself no longer has legal effect. At this time, anyone can use the trademark without incurring legal liability;
Trademarks that lose legal effect also include trademarks that are invalid or revoked. It is also possible that the trademark is still being applied for but has not been approved. At this time, it has a small mark called TM. Although such a trademark can be used after approval, if it is subject to objections and other issues when it is not approved, the subsequent review will be After spending a lot of time, the trademark still does not have legal effect.
③Three possible imperfections
The third situation is that the trademark transferor is not the trademark registrant, or the ownership of the trademark is not in the hands of the transferor, but is owned by several persons. all. In these cases, the transferor does not have the right to transfer the trademark. The transferee of the trademark should inquire about relevant evidence, trademark registration certificate, trademark registrant information, etc. before the transaction.
A trademark has legal effect after the trademark is approved. Both the transferor and the transferee should always pay attention to the imperfections of the trademark transfer and make the trademark transfer process transparent, open, fair and equitable.